"The midwife helped me ... otherwise I could have died": women's experience of professional midwifery services in rural Afghanistan - a qualitative study in the provinces Kunar and Laghman

• Main Authors: Trude Thommesen (Author), Hallgeir Kismul (Author), Ian Kaplan (Author), Khadija Safi (Author), Graziella Van den Bergh (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: BMC, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Afghanistan has one of the world's highest maternal mortality ratios, with more than 60% of women having no access to a skilled birth attendant in some areas. The main challenges for childbearing Afghan women are access to skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care a...